Rivkah's words
Goodbye
I couldn't become any worse
and it's not the pain
that makes me this way
but when you leave to be without me
well all is damned
no-no you don't understand

My tears over fill this glass
I am the worst in this world
the hurt never goes to surpass
when from me you fast

If you would only let me go
then I would know
where my heart has yet to cave in...
                                                   Composing                                         can't help but notice
                          piano notes drip from the wall
                                                 in black paint
                          smears against your fingertips
                               when you're trying to play
               as the rose petals spill from their vase
                                                   spilling away
                 yet the colours remain just the same
                      among the light that dimly shines
                                           ...when you begin

                                                           
Purple
the room curves
among unheard words
my paintings smear when I'm not near
and blue drips
from my fingertips
no one with me wanted to stay
yet I choose to remain this way
because I was never lovable
so my tears fall purple
                                                       Silence
           I admir' the silence of the song playing
                       o but I don't hear it anymore-
               I've heard it too many times before
                              to remember the melody
            I sit here and I admir' the falling tears
                           they fall beneath my breath
                                    no one tries to notice
                         that I am declining fromt the                                                        picture
                       that I am no longer indifferent
                       I admir' the breathing patterns
                                             sickening sobs
                                         to breathe lessens
                                    no one tries to notice
                          how lifeless I could become
          how I am sitting here in lifeless motion
                                          tortured emotion
       voices deserted from another room enter
                                  wher I am not wanted
                                      silence is calling me
                                              ...calling me...

Poem on Ivory
the poem plays on for hours
as it does in my head
like piano keys
fingers hitting each note
blows you away in beauty
well this is your song...
i see the dark frames that
curve around her eyes
and the blueness teh eyes behold
i notice her lips so pink
and glistening
her hair so strawberry and soft
which curls about her face
i notice how she breathes
the rising and falling of her chest
Bethany.
Content sorrow
I know you don't forget her
though you pretend to do so
how could you let her
fade from your memory

As I await behind.
where you set the flowers
allay upon her stone

leaves crunch within the wind

your sorrows merely fade
you loved her no different than I
but that was another time

and the tears clear from your cheeks
wounded memory
but she will always love you
the tears fade away
yet her voice remais the same

the sorrows would part
yet there remains an exsistance of her
who stands beside you
resembles nothing of yourself but of her

the wind blows a few petals past me
and then it begins again
the rain
your daughter could never look back
yet could never foregt
her mother.

Dreaming...
within a misty grey
another lovely strays away
among the New England bay
she stood astray
the dream is only another way
to let me stay
among the wind fades the fate
in this life she will not wait
yet I love her so
so don't let her go
yet we lost her too
like the very few
that flew through...
and now I'm through
the pain does remain
that, like the rain
she, that dame
that I cry for invain
the dream is just another way
for me to stay among the pain

continue ...
Copyright ©2001 Rivkah Cohen